When DC Comics announced its new Absolute run—yet another alternate universe reboot—I was one of its loudest detractors. Sure, Absolute Wonder Woman’s design objectively goes hard, but
In “Planetary Consciousness,” Alan Moore’s introduction to the 2000s DC comic Planetary by Warren Ellis, the legendary author didn’t just herald a new era of comics—he forecasted
Since James Gunn became the new boss of DC studios, it feels like he sticks to one formula: everything looks like his Suicide Squad.
2008, the year of the housing
Professional DC Comics expert Alex Jaffe and I have been rereading the ambitious comic book 52 and podcasting about it. We’ve just reached the halfway point, and even if
Eleanor Davis’ graphic novel You and a Bike and a Road came out in 2017, but was reprinted this summer by Fantagraphics. I heard about it from a very cool
Today's instalment of Platform is looking at the work of Tom Humberstone, a comic artist and illustrator currently living in Edinburgh.
Luke Plunkett: Hi Tom! Can you tell
Hello listeners! Alex Jaffe and Gita Jackson continue on our re-read of 52. This week they covered issue 7, checking in on failson Booster Gold and the trials and tribulations
If you follow some games artists on Twitter, or simply have and occasionally check in on a Bluesky account, you may well have come across the work of Kim Hu.
Hello listeners! Alex Jaffe and Gita Jackson continue on our re-read of 52. In this episode, Gita repeatedly says “the super for Symbolman” like they are suffering from a witch’
Over the weekend I finished watching the new Scott Pilgrim anime, which I thought ultimately stuck the landing despite being a little too all over the place for its own
52 Pick Up is a podcast about the strange and wonderful DC Comics series 52. Every other week, join Gita Jackson of Aftermath and Alex Jaffe of the podcast Insert
